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I have successfully installed kubuntu using the bottom option on 8.10b2 DVD and did the apt-get update and apt-get dist-upgrade.

I had not noticed that my internet interface eth0 had stopped working after rebooting. It was working prior to updating kubuntu.

When I clicked the LinuxMCE icon on the destop, the installation started but returned quite a few errors due to not having an internet connection, I assume.

I have since rebooted the PC which now goes straight to the console prompt user@computername:~$How can I get back to the kubuntu desktop from here?

I have tried to ping my router with no success.How can I check and activate the configuration of eth0 from the console? I have tried using the ifconfig command but am not too sure how to use this properly. eth0 just needs to be DHCP.

If I can get this going I can try to re-run full-install.sh from the console instead.

I have since found that the eth0 connection to be rather temperamental.

For some reason the DNS info is not being passed on.So when the LinuxMCE install starts. All the host addresses can not be resolved, resulting in a failed install.

I check the response from dig, but got none. I could ping my router fine. I kept trying to ping ntp.ubuntu.com (the first host on the install) until for some reason it started to reply.

I immediately started the installation again, and no there have been no errors so far. (ongoing)Fingers crossed this will be a successfull install, but I am expecting the DNS issue to come back and bite me later.

Time to dig up some info on dig, so I can work out what the problem may be.

If you have two NIC cards, the problem may be NIC switching, and if it's the case, edit file /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules and change eth1 to eth0 on first entry (mobo interface) and change eth0 to eth1 (Gb Intel interface) - after reboot, it works like it should.

If you have two NIC cards, the problem may be NIC switching, and if it's the case, edit file /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules and change eth1 to eth0 on first entry (mobo interface) and change eth0 to eth1 (Gb Intel interface) - after reboot, it works like it should.

Thanks pw44

Unfortunately this is not the case. I only have one onboard NIC and no others.I have hit another hurdle for the time being, so I will have to sort this out later.

I have installed the LMCE DVD Beta2, apt-get update, dist-upgrade and network LMCE install. This all goes well. The reboot happens and then I get a "Avwizard" popup with "Failed to Setup x". I have done the following:

dcerouter_1:~# sudo ifup eth0

ifup: interface eth0 already configured

dcerouter_1:~# startx

I got a lot of messages, but that last few are: (See attachement for screen shot)

Notice the device numbers, ie "RTL8111/8168B." The last two lines under the Ethernet controller device should indicate which drivers are in use. For me:

Kernel driver in use: r8169Kernel modules: r8169

This driver does not work for this device in earlier ubuntu distributions, as the device is 8168B and not 8169. If you have a similar problem, google your device and driver and see what you come up with in the regular ubuntu or kubuntu forums. You might be able to replace the driver from the command line and hopefully that will get your Internet connection up and running, though I don't know for sure if LMCE uses the same Ethernet drivers as ubuntu does.

(this computer is running on ubuntu 9.10, due to my failure to install LMCE on it)